Evaluation of fusion methods for crop monitoring purposes

In this contribution we present a local evaluation procedure of Landsat-MODIS fusion methods for crop monitoring purposes. Two fusion methods are applied to obtain a two-year time series of Landsat-resolution images. The validation is applied at pixel level in order to analyze if the simulated images are capable of unmixing coarse-resolution pixels and obtaining an accurate temporal profile of the high-resolution pixels near the boundaries between two fields. The experiment has been conducted in two neighbor fields and results have shown that the temporal profile of these high-resolution pixels agrees with the temporal profile of a pure coarse-resolution pixel in the corresponding field. They highlight that the simulated images allow identifying the membership of the high-resolution simulated pixels to one field or the neighbor one.